[NTLUG:Discuss] Making GUIs

[MadHat]

On Mar 2, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Wayne Patterson wrote:
> What would be the easiest language to use to make a GUI front end to a 
> pre-existing command line program?
> I know very little about programing except in using assembler.

easiest would probably be a scripting language with a GUI Tk.  Tcl, 
Python and Perl all have Tk for a basic GUI set.  Part of what is best 
is going to depend on the audience.  If you have no control over the 
env, like libraries, C/C++ may be better as you can statically compile 
and distribute, which can't really be done with the scripting 
languages, but is going to take more time to write and learn.  There 
are also other GUI Tks, such as PerlQt, the Qt libs for Perl, PerlGtk, 
the Gtk for Perl, PyGtk, Python's Gtk implementation, PyQt, etc....

Personally I am a perl junky and like the Qt libs, but it depend on 
what you are doing for what works best.